I started using drugs to learn the metric system.

D.A.R.E- To resist drugs and violence, that's the slogan that was on my t-shirt IIRC..Also who remembers Stuff McGruff the crime dog??

I remember hearing about "coke" for the first time: "Don't do it." "What does it do?" "Gives you confidence and energy, make you the most popular person in the room, but you'll die." "Yeah...but about the popularity thing..."

They also gave us T-shirts I assume to identify us to everyone as the lame narc kids.

The way they explained lsd to 12 yr old me was funny, I couldn’t wait to try this drug when I got older, and I did, and I loved it, thanks police ❤️ I’m an artist and they said in class - if you take this Bart Simspon paper with lsd your cartoons will come to life - well f**k me he wasn’t wrong 😝

Yea, our generation got hit with D.A.R.E and Just do it! Really confusing times

Yep. They could have shown us the outcome of what drugs do to people were. Like what teeth look like from a method head. The unhealthy overly skinny bodies with sores on it. The I lost my mind part of the situation. The parts were people do unimaginable tasks together the drugs. Many kids weren't sheltered to beging with. If you show the effect, nobody will want to be in that situation. When the emt came to our school and shown grafic photos of someone in an accident that weren't waring a seat belt look like, every kid in mu class on Monday said that they stared waring their seatbelts.

They made us curious. They also promised a lot of things that the actual drugs couldn't deliver ... not even close to. We were disappointed. Also, nobody starting shooting up Heroin after trying out weed, at least not within the next few years. Something about what they told us might have been slightly off, I think... But, within a week after Drug Ed in 6th grade, we tried weed for the first time. Would have taken another year or two otherwise, I honestly think...

DARE failed me and the rest of America 🤣 🤣 🤣

So you can get us some drugs?

They still do this.

"And now you know how it's done... please don't do it."

I remember those stupid googles that made you appear drunk...I walked like a drunk without them.

Yet, they don't get sex-ed...

I was the dare program, scared the s**t out of the teacher and had a lovely conversation with the officers afterwards. They thought my parents were involved in drugs it was really because I wanted to be a cop so I explored and asked questions till I got answers from adults

my fourth grade teacher helped cops with a DARE program, she made it in the newspaper

Uk here we also did a day of death by electricity, fire and drugs ect... Called Crucial Crew... Each room in a warehouse was set out as a crime scene with realistic sounds/smells and videos.. They also locked you in prison cells... I will never forget that little girl on the scooter being ran over then trying to revive her.. 👀 😳 We were just 8years old. And yes I am traumatised lmao

HaHAHAHA...truth!

they also told us to not stick pebbles up our noses ...

Because of DARE and my severe lack of drug knowledge I thought my parents drinking a coke (coca cola) while driving was going to get us killed.

D.A.R.E. Drugs Are Really Expensive

I remember one of the cops telling me about what people can see and feel on LSD and my first thought was, "that's so cool!"